PAWS FOR THOUGHT page one
Within these pages I would like to collate various personal accounts & quotes about the value of dogs, and their everlasting legacies.
I hope these help you all - if you should have a contribition you would like to make please do contact me here
"This soldier, I realised, must have had friends at home & in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog."
Napoleon Bonaparte
On finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face & howling, on a moonlit field after a battle.
Napoleon ws haunted by this scene until hisown death.
"The problem is that they don't last long enough, and people last too long"
Anonymous
"A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walkes beside you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way"
Mary Carolyn Davies
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is certain that dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people"
James Thurber
"If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty and gratitude, then animals arebetter off than alot of humans"
James Herriot
"Death ends a life, not a relationship"
Jack Lemmon
"The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. It is on our hearts that life is engraved".
(Kindly submitted by Judy Viitanen)
"Never truly forgotten until no longer remembered"
Lacie Petitto
"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of seperation"
Kalil Gibran
"The more people I meet, the more I love my dog"
Unknown
"You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears"
C S Lewis
"If there are no dogs in heaven, then I want to go where they went"
Will Rogers
"If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them"
Pam Brown
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"If there is no God for thee, then there is no God for me"
Anna Hempstead Branch
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